Here comes the sun...and the book

It is a glorious Spring day and I heard the Beatles this morning - this song cheers me up no matter what time of the year. Then I got an email from Amazon "Congratulations, the paperback edition of your book "SAP Nation 3. 0: Manifest Destiny" is live in the Amazon Store."

It's available on the amazon.com site here. It may take a couple of days for Amazon sites around the world to show as available. This is the print-on-demand version and works best for orders in small quantities. If you want 25+ copies at a much better unit price please send me a note. Corporate Graphics is running a bulk job and those copies should be available by the end of April.

The Kindle eBook version should be out by early April. You can pre-order here. Many other channels are serviced by Ingram-Spark and they also have a print-on-demand version uploaded.

Whew! As the Beatles sang "Little darling, it feels like years since it's been here".

This had the longest gestation period of all my books. I wanted to explore many dimensions of the ever-changing SAP Nation. I started the book thinking it would mostly be S/4HANA focused - that gets plenty of coverage, but so do many of SAP's new products including C/4HANA, SCP, AIN and IBP. My last few books have averaged 250 pages - several readers told me they liked books they could finish on a long flight. I broke that rule for this one - it is 400 pages long. I would be remiss to shortchange the 35 case studies which make up 250 pages in the book. As it is, their raw transcripts are five times as long.

I personally hope lots of customer executives read what their peers told me over the countless hours they spent with me. And that they revisit their view of SAP and their own investments in software and talent.

"Given the wide proliferation of products and terminology in SAP World, my firm, Deal Architect, recommends (and often facilitates for clients) an intense offsite meeting to help customers take a fresh look at SAP and the broader market. That confab should cover and assess the fit of many of the strategies above, while also evaluating internal and external talent and fit with emerging technology trends."

In the meantime, thank you to the village which helped bring the book to life. As the lads sang "I say, it's all right".

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Here comes the sun...and the book

It is a glorious Spring day and I heard the Beatles this morning - this song cheers me up no matter what time of the year. Then I got an email from Amazon "Congratulations, the paperback edition of your book "SAP Nation 3. 0: Manifest Destiny" is live in the Amazon Store."

It's available on the amazon.com site here. It may take a couple of days for Amazon sites around the world to show as available. This is the print-on-demand version and works best for orders in small quantities. If you want 25+ copies at a much better unit price please send me a note. Corporate Graphics is running a bulk job and those copies should be available by the end of April.

The Kindle eBook version should be out by early April. You can pre-order here. Many other channels are serviced by Ingram-Spark and they also have a print-on-demand version uploaded.

Whew! As the Beatles sang "Little darling, it feels like years since it's been here".

This had the longest gestation period of all my books. I wanted to explore many dimensions of the ever-changing SAP Nation. I started the book thinking it would mostly be S/4HANA focused - that gets plenty of coverage, but so do many of SAP's new products including C/4HANA, SCP, AIN and IBP. My last few books have averaged 250 pages - several readers told me they liked books they could finish on a long flight. I broke that rule for this one - it is 400 pages long. I would be remiss to shortchange the 35 case studies which make up 250 pages in the book. As it is, their raw transcripts are five times as long.

I personally hope lots of customer executives read what their peers told me over the countless hours they spent with me. And that they revisit their view of SAP and their own investments in software and talent.

"Given the wide proliferation of products and terminology in SAP World, my firm, Deal Architect, recommends (and often facilitates for clients) an intense offsite meeting to help customers take a fresh look at SAP and the broader market. That confab should cover and assess the fit of many of the strategies above, while also evaluating internal and external talent and fit with emerging technology trends."

In the meantime, thank you to the village which helped bring the book to life. As the lads sang "I say, it's all right".